"Vested interest in things remaining the way they are?" You can read a lot into that. It's true in a lot of ways. But there's one way in particular that it's true that I doubt anyone would ever recognize. I will give you a hint. Think of it as a "catagorical imperative" -- a belief that some things must be accepted as true whether they are true or not. Virtually everyone thinks that way, not just the "vested interests." Even you think that way! Don't you? Yes, you do.
Everyone needs to take a large amount of LSD/shrooms in a clearing in the woods, make a bonfire, and put on Boredoms "Vision Creation Newsun" and go TRIBAL. REBORN
How would one go about destroying the ego without going mad? If you absolutely remove the ego, do you lose awareness of yourself and your actions? Should the ego simply be invited to stand a few steps back and let the overmind run things?
well once you lose your ego, it will come back. your ego is important, it allows you to survive, I just try to remember that my ego isnt everything and that I am apart of something much greater than what you are confronted with in every day life
What L.S.D does is it eats kills your brain cells or like acid by killing you brain celss an the visuals you see is from the effect of your brain dying . That is why when you see these visuals you are really seing your brain cells dying !
@TheDEADBLOOM Do you know who the person is that discovered LSD? His name is Albert Hoffman. He was the first person to ingest LSD and used it throughout his life. HE lived to 102 years old and his mental faculties were still sharp considering his age. Go look him up. He's got videos on here. LSD used in proper setting with proper dosage restrictions is no more harmful than eating a tasty cake.
I would like to try LSD once in my life, but I want someone to watch me and record it. And I would like to try and write poetry or something, draw something...damn...
@Hiru45 Unfortunately, you will find that the recording will be pretty boring. It will look like you in a room, acting like you always do. The LSD experience, is inherently internal. That is, you can't record what is going on inside your mind. So the trick is, just try and notice what is happening to your mind and what you are observing. That will tell you more about yourself than any video recording of the outside of yourself.
@DrKarakuchi However, when you externalize your thoughts in the form of speech or actions, it will give you an idea of how your brain was functioning on the material. It is definitely useful.
Society almost broke through in the 60s and the corpocracy would not allow it. That's why we have trash culture today - reality shows, shitting music, shallow, shallow, shallow.
What he says, is what jesus, buddha, sokrates and other similar people experienced thousands of years before, and he is right! we're just in one Hell of a Jail. Not doing things, because other say, thats stupid. Overthink what you say twice and so on.. Just so much needles Pressure. Acting Natural is just not possible in such a zivilisation. i know, LSD is making you see the reality but it can not be the Solution for this. maybe we all should learn from Zen monks or other people, who ARE real..
@Psych0nautilus The truth is that what you see on lsd are things you wouldnt see usualy or think of usualy until a point where you rethink of you're perception in some way.
The intellect of this man is incredible. I've been an avid fan of Timothy Leary's for a while now but, in ignorance or obliviousness or whatever the hell, missed out on what Alpert has to say but thank goodness i heard it today.
I've also experienced the nature of "interbeing" to a heightened degree on LSD. I could "see" into things. A harmless piece of paper contained the sun, trees, clouds, rain, etc...I also wouldn't trade the laughter I experienced while being high for anything.
@69torus Hey, I ponder if Toruses are similar in that kind of laughter... I also laughed hysterically ... preponderance, profundity, internal collaboration and collapse. A laxative of forms. I wouldn't trade anything for the experience I had either. I would, however, say that the Bridge "into" this inner world is something we all participate in without psychedelics. Yet the persistent "Model of the world" as Alpert puts it truly is individual and in many ways unsharable, in inverse proportion.
@69torus But, those creations are wholly produced by the brain. But, the fuel of that fire is provided by consciousness. Those chemicals being expended do not produce the idea. They facilitate the idea. The idea itself is derived from the greater consciousness. If you want to call it the God consciousness, then do so. It is what it is. There is no possible way that our brain creates everything we experience. It's simply matter with an intricate indicator facility. The nervous system.
@Kostly Oh, well no need to bring God to an acid trip. Nor would I equate my heightened/"accelerated" consciousness while being high on acid as being somehow closer to God's. As you said, "it is what it is"
@69torus I'm irreligious, but, I do believe in God. I believe everything that is comes from that greater consciousness. All human consciousness originates from that, as well. That's, just like, my opinion, man. :)
@Kostly That's what Jesus was trying to say. The Old Testament is based on the Sumerian stories where a jealous alien wanted people to look outward and be under his control so they didn't know their divine selves. Later Jesus tried to teach people that the kingdom of heaven is within.
@SuzLa1 If jesus were alive in this day and age, he would rail against christianity and if he had witnessed what was done in his name, he would be outraged.
complete sync that this video came to me. despite not having dosed since April of 1981, I was reflecting on that VERY LAST and impactful trip. I had taken LSD hundreds of times before I did this blotter. "it" happened....ego death and the panic that he speaks of in the video became so pronounced. In my "ego mania" I was also convinced that the sheer horror I was experiencing was something that I had also inflicted upon the universe. I came through fine later that evening and all was good!!
@benlorenc What's wrong with that? If you've never done LSD, then you don't understand the value of losing your mind; the value of being able step outside yourself and experience reality without the filter of identity. I didn't really experience this until my 4th trip, so if you've only done it once and thought it was wonderful and that's it, then you have a long journey ahead of you, and if you never do it, then phrases like "consciousness expansion" are nothing more than catch phrases to you
@benlorenc besides what @benlorenc stated below, where does one draw a line between destruction liberation? Maybe one is liberated in a way of thinking which is destructive to conventional thinking. The point of all of this is to find yourself and find your true you, not the you which society wants.
@WR4157 no i mean destruction as in getting a call from someone on christmas and having them ask you if you want to hear a song you wrote only to hear them singing happy birthday from an insane asylum. i'm not talking about people becoming social misfits, i'm talking about people who get what i like to call syd barrett syndrome. they do acid, fry their brains and then cannot fulfill their basic civil duties because they are mentally incapable.
@WR4157 being deemed insane and being forced to serve out the remainder of your conciousness within this body of existence in an institution with a broken shell??? lsd can break your shell, your body, yes your brain is part of your body, and thus defeat the purpose of enlightenment because it puts filters on your soul that make you unable to communicate with others and form coherent thoughts that are tangible and can benefit all of mankind.
@benlorenc I understand, but it is still a subjective measure. One human being is determining the mental health of another. Where is the bar, where is the line, where is the proof?
@benlorenc LSD and all psychedelics can be both beneficial and destructive, yes, but only because there is potential for misuse. Psychedelics are very new to Western society and when LSD hit the streets people didn't know how to use them, and most still don't today since they've been tabooed. If we'd have studied them for the past 40 years instead of trying to make them disappear perhaps we would have learned to use them properly instead of using them just as some other recreational drug.
@benlorenc Well put Ben, I like the way you just put that. I suppose you are correct. But it seems like Robert Alpert's awareness or consciousness actually has moved toward the "Macrocosm," as he talks about the collaboration of mankind to work together and create a sustainable balance (that outreaches the present one, at least, of all the injustices we face.) So to me it gave him perhaps a kind of free love for the world, at a great price.
@Oxxyjoe yeah, i have nothing against man working together to create a stable environment that supports all life working in harmony, and if ram dass used lsd and came to that idea, than that is good. but all i am saying is that lsd, while it may induce enlightening experiences, it can also induces dangerous ones.
@benlorenc I totally agree, and some have raised the idea of putting a government in charge of it's usage, but we already know the government is not meant to handle people or their affairs... people understand the government is in charge of alcohol and tobacco, and people are killing themselves with these drugs all the time. People instead have to realize that to take a drug, to take a psychoactive drug, they are taking their life into their own hands.
@benlorenc LSD or any hallucinogen is not for everyone. You shouldn't use it in a distressed state of mind. Whether it's a persistent state of mind in distress or a more temporary one brought on by recent events or experiences.
@benlorenc - Ignorant bigotry like yours has caused world wars, genocide, oppression, unlawful incarceration, needless suffering and criminalisation of individuals who have the right to do whatever the hell they want so long as they're not harming or having a negative effect on others.
Your mind is probably too feeble and weak to handle anything even mildly 'out there' - that much we can deduce. But don't project your mental handicap and pyschological weaknesses on other people.
artificial establishments and materialistic objects via man made government economy, banks, new cars, your job as a wage slave, and green pieces of paper take control of most peoples lives as we know it, LSD simply opens the door into a more concentrated sense of your actual reality with the absence of what man and the human race has led you to believe:
IMAGINE: superior existence, superior 5 sense's, 6th sense if u will, deepest thoughts of your life...truly exist, truly live..15 hit vet
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.” ~ Bill Hicks
@petestrat07 I know that quote from this song: watch?v=OL6-hSVtuYs
One morning i listened to this on my headphones while in bed before my brain had fully awakened. It made all the sense in the world, and i saw life abstracted as a part of string theory on a grand scale and partly visualized it. That was a truely awe-inspiring incident.
I have never used narcotics, but if i ever were to try any, LSD is at the top of the list togheter with DMT in ayahuasca, in a controlled enviroment*
@petestrat07 I feel smart since i realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to slow vibration without LSD at a young age:) ... dont bring the hate
@basepadz BUt, those ideas didn't come from you. You have that understanding because others have come to that realization. Creativity is the engine that drives evolution. LEarn to be that creative engine. Failure is inevitable. But, failure is part and parcel to progress.
Vote Ron Paul 2012 to end the FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS' 40 YEAR LONG UNSUCCESSFUL WAR on the people's freedom of choice to consume substances (The end of the War on Drugs).
Ron Paul to BRING HOME the troops.
Ron Paul to audit the fed. Ron Paul to end the "Patriot" Act. Ron Paul to end the private bankers' "Federal" Reserve and the power for them to print our currency (UNCONSTITUTIONAL).
Ron Paul to end warantless spying on American citizens, like you and I
that's it, trust your nervous system, it is the feelers to detect everything in the cosmos that is coming at you, every particle and ray. Don't be scared. Be a warrior, Castaneda style, then you will come to know power & you won't be scared anymore, just let go & let G-d ◎ ※ ◎ ※
@CilyPudii Castaneda was a fraud, same Lobsang Rampa, but who I preferred as much less gung ho and of course was Buddha centric.
As to acid, apart from a lot of pretty shapes and colours, found I could easily see the true face behind those in my company and had a small 'connectedness' experience with a sister. However knew a lot of people who overdid and ended up in loony bins and subsequent deaths at untimely ages.
Meditation much better and never have a 'bad trip'.
@carriemaizey `` there is a 1000 ways to activate the natural DMT that is in your pineal gland. LSD is just a product from ergot fungus. 'shrooms got it too. But "lucid dreaming" is a good way to naturally stimulate the pineal, and Castaneda did a lot to coach one how to master lucid dreaming. I am grateful to him. The entheogenic plants on the Earth are here for a reason. My DNA has told me so. This video is excellent isn't it. Sad people in the Govt. think they can outlaw plants, no?
@CilyPudii yes Graham Hancock's book Supernatural is recent and wonderful. also a writer, diplomat Paul Von Ward that I heard speak yesterday and of course Steve's death yesterday and how far Apple products have taken us. but since this old beatnik video, common sense is being lost, drink your water, sleep, draw, write, invent, be an strong independent and mentor the young men and women.....dinner at the kitchen table and a good mountain climbing trip , be well.....the other is just icing.
@CilyPudii Hey I 'activated' my pineal gland. If I concentrate on it for a long time I can feel it start to pulsate faster and faster and then I feel like I can move the pulsating feeling all around inside my head. Once, when doing this, my vision started to get wavy, like everything was slowly bending out of and back into place. Do you know what this means? Also I want to take this to the next level but I don't know what to do next, any advice?Asking you because you sound knowledgeable about it
@MrJerktube I've heard overstimulation of the pineal gland can bring about hallucinations, I've never experienced it before. Also try sungazing, it's a yogic technique used in India. When the sun is rising or setting and you can look at it without it hurting your eyes just sort of meditate with it in your vision and it's supposed to stimulate your pineal gland.
@carriemaizey when younger I was sad Casteneda was a fraud they are good teen books. Graham Hancock's book Supernatural is great, recent. yes meditation and drink your water. some actual ph.d's now looking at mushroom compounds for illnesses, finally.....it is all chemistry and light really, be well.
@louis424 No no no listen to what he says: "Richard Alpert is an identity that I've taken on... then I learned this whole business of who I am... you start to have a dissociative experience of where all that you become is awareness... all of my games were like going off into the distance"
Basically he's saying that as he learned that we were all one being (as opposed to "Richard Alpert") he started to become scared because his identity was lost in that one being (psychological death)
the 60's launch the spirtual quest for that generation ... at that point in history a drug was needed to provide the insights conveyed in many eastern traditions ... alan watts pointed this out in his famous remark that 'you hang up the phone once you have received the message' ... LSD was a phone call back in the 60's ... times have changed and better more enduring non-phamacological methods have been revived
This man gave over 100,000 hits of LSD to a group of Stanford students that launched them on a magical trip. Check out our documentary Anonymous Artists of America @aaafilm
@ChuckNorrisKratosLOL I adore terrance McKenna, had some dmt last night!!!&Terrance I have to give my gratitude always4his awakening of the human conciousness
That's a picture of Meher Baba in the background. A Great Spirit who declared *If God can be found in a pill, God is not worthy of being called God*. Richard's being really flowered when he let go the drug taking. That's when he came to Oneness and embraced the awakening that is Ram Dass.
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died for our sins, was buried and rose again so that all who BELIEVE on Him will have eternal life in Heaven. Call upon Jesus Christ and believe on Him for eternal life!
To look at this and you think "this man is brilliant, look how much he knows". And then you realize Richard Alpert was merely standing at the bottom of the ladder of knowledge compared to where Ram Dass is now. Staggering...and beautiful. Namaste
I used to do psychedelics for solely recreational reasons. I had little interest in spirituality. These experiences pointed me toward spirituality, and now I'm feeling depressed for no reason, maybe because of my use of these substances in places I shouldn't have. I've learned they aren't something to fuck around with. Should I avoid the psychedelic experience, or embrace it as an opportunity to heal with my new appreciation for spirituality?
@Tengent Baba explains it as "the psychedelics let you into Heaven for a short time but you can't stay because you haven't gotten there in the proper way." Now that you are aware that there is more than what you can see, feel, and touch you should open yourself to Ram Dass teachings to learn the proper way to get there, without the artificial means.
Namaste. Our dear Conduit, Sri Baba Ram Dass is still in his body, enjoying Maui, and continues to teach at 80 years in that incarnation. We are blessed. Thank You for posting this video. May we all benefit from His explorations. He very much is an 'advance scout', as it were. Namaste.
An amazing video. Everything is clear to me except the last statement: "Trust your nervous system." Can anyone elaborate for me? Does this mean to essentially stop thinking and let the experience of losing identity take over?
The hippie communism thing did not work, the very reason we have enough to go around is our selfishness and drive. And as soon as we buy into this WE thing there will not be enough to go around, remember Russia in the 60s.
I've only dropped acid a few times (the first time being the most intense), but the impression that it made on me will stay with me for the rest of my life...amazing, beautiful, the closest to insane i ever want to get, but never-the-less a voyage into my own mind that can never really be explained in words. Every one should try it at least once, which goes every thing in life. Hey, you only live once and you're a long time dead :)
Keeping the machines going is the primary value. Serving the machine is why we live. Soon we will be bio hooked to unlimited computors our minds will be linked 24/7/365 to computors to keep us productive and competing even during sleep ,and out preforming the world. In the hearts of our overseerers serving the machine at all costs is the goal.
@Ganon2234 Everythin in Zeitgeist is credited..the first movie which Peter Joseph admits he didn't have clearance for features Richard Alpert speaking. I hope plagairstic or not, you are not somehow suggesting that Zeitgiest movement (which is seperate from the films,especially first one) is just plagairizing other ppl and is therefore not to be listened to? Doesn't matter either way it working on a solution, arguments over who's idea it was first is futile. Watch Krishnamurti speak on immitaion
Why is it that I have never heard of this genius before? I'd like to sit across the table from him and Terrence McKenna in a deep discussion about LSD passing a joint.
Awesome interview, everyone should be aware of the psychadelic experience IMO (of course we can only hope everyone would share a positive outcome!). This fellow is a very good speaker! ^_^
I have never seen something this descriptive of the actual feeling of being on a psychedelic. Its not even the hallucinations that get me, its the change in perception.
@majikrush such a brilliant man in his words and judging by his expressions during the interview I don't know that I have ever seen a more genuine person speak. Thanks for posting!
@Slugg329 I think Ram Dass is speaking beyond what you're looking into. Since he's not exactly talking of a capitalist society in mind, rather an all in one collaborative society. Much like what the Natives had before white man came in.The society functioned much of cohabiting family. Rather than the new aged competitive and destructive nature we have now which is "how we know it".But It DOES NOT have to be that way, it's the way some rich__'s made it and convinced you and I how it should be.
@valiantfocker I know what you're saying, but it doesnt seem possible. Have u ever read Adam Smith's the Wealth of Nations? Its much more insightful and realistic than the idealist, drug induced belief that there is enough resources to go around for everyone. Its just not true. Things are designed, produced, sold and bought in markets that should fit the competitive model. Co-ops dont work well in reality. Humans are a very tricky species.
@Slugg329 or if everyone took LSD they wouldnt need that external motiviation or greed, they would all be internally motivated to do well and good as one.
@CroOokedTeEth I've never been motivated to do good when tripping on acid. I like to dance, laugh, have sex and enjoy the world. I wouldnt want to work a job.
@Slugg329 you wouldnt have to work a job, if only people were self sufficient. lsd would hopefully just keep people peaceful and respectful, rather then greedy. ive never tripped lsd so, i am no expert or anything. just an idealist.
Great video, I'm really impressed by Ram's teachings, and although I don't take LSD or any other drug, I do see him, and Timothy Leary as visionaries of the psychological world. One thing that I noted to be strange about the video aside from the content was the fact that the video seemed to be pix elating at about 60 bpm. I wonder if this was a subliminal message of some sort intended to pass through our absolute thresholds.
@Slugg329 Well, actually, i beg the differ sir, that is absolutely the opposite of what moderns social science is saying. For instance Dan Pink here: watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc or Howard Rheingold: watch?v=d5s3Z0iesRM or.. yeah, i have an abundance of sources, but those two are among those pedagogical enough for most people.
@CalyptratusTZM I watched the first video, and I plan to watch the 2nd soon b/c I did like the RSA video. I dont agree with it though. True, society's best accomplishments aren't achieved because of the monetary incentive. A good example is Jonas sulk and his polio vaccine in which he did not patent. But if you compare economies throughout, lets say, the 20th century, those that have had the most competitive markets have surpassed those more prone to collectivism. Competition breeds high quality
Nice :) I love Ram Dass. LSD (not alone) has helped shaped who I am today. Someone who understands that collaboration over competition is the key to our survival. Someone who is non materialistic, concerned for others, empathetic, sympathetic, and on a path to enlightenment. I'm not saying LSD is a necessary step to take, but it sure does help open the 3rd eye, and you can truly see (and feel) how money, possessions, social status, etc. is all an illusion. Thanks for the upload friend :)
@Cliner98 As a psychologist who has studied this topic for many years, I can categorically say that you are talking pure nonsense. The part of the brain responsible for breathing, heart rate etc is the Medulla Oblongata. Studies show LSD doesn't affect this but instead effects the Cerebral Cortex which is responsible for thought/consciousness/perception. Research "Neurotransmitter receptor binding" and "LSD" and read the research yourself. LSD is as 'safe' as the mind of the person taking it.
Absolutely brilliant. His description of the psychedelic experience is the best I have ever heard. You can tell how hard hes trying to make his thoughts words.
@Cliner98 First, of course it's not a "totally safe drug", is there such a thing? No, and I found that most physical effects are truly controllable, & it all depends on one's state of mind, setting, & who else is with you....
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"Vested interest in things remaining the way they are?" You can read a lot into that. It's true in a lot of ways. But there's one way in particular that it's true that I doubt anyone would ever recognize. I will give you a hint. Think of it as a "catagorical imperative" -- a belief that some things must be accepted as true whether they are true or not. Virtually everyone thinks that way, not just the "vested interests." Even you think that way! Don't you? Yes, you do.
imjustpassinthru 2 days ago
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imjustpassinthru 2 days ago
Everyone needs to take a large amount of LSD/shrooms in a clearing in the woods, make a bonfire, and put on Boredoms "Vision Creation Newsun" and go TRIBAL. REBORN
Ghoopty 1 week ago
We Are the 99%!
Iamyourmoth 2 weeks ago
I would gladly donate the rest of my life to take part in LSD experiments ! NO JOKE (he said 300 times -that is nothing compared to my own use)
patmac573 2 weeks ago
How would one go about destroying the ego without going mad? If you absolutely remove the ego, do you lose awareness of yourself and your actions? Should the ego simply be invited to stand a few steps back and let the overmind run things?
elchafa 2 weeks ago
@elchafa
well once you lose your ego, it will come back. your ego is important, it allows you to survive, I just try to remember that my ego isnt everything and that I am apart of something much greater than what you are confronted with in every day life
BlessureK 2 weeks ago
@BlessureK thanks for your reply :)
elchafa 2 weeks ago
What L.S.D does is it eats kills your brain cells or like acid by killing you brain celss an the visuals you see is from the effect of your brain dying . That is why when you see these visuals you are really seing your brain cells dying !
TheDEADBLOOM 3 weeks ago
@TheDEADBLOOM trolololol
BlessureK 3 weeks ago
@BlessureK wtf
TheDEADBLOOM 3 weeks ago
@TheDEADBLOOM What the fuck are you talking about jesus christ.
QCBEC 3 weeks ago
@TheDEADBLOOM Right, next you can explain how such a miniscule amount of material can "kill the brain". HAHAHAH I'm waiting with bated breath.
Kostly 3 weeks ago
@Kostly apparently you guy sare to young or haven't ate enough acid to know what it does . So why explain!
TheDEADBLOOM 3 weeks ago
@TheDEADBLOOM Do you know who the person is that discovered LSD? His name is Albert Hoffman. He was the first person to ingest LSD and used it throughout his life. HE lived to 102 years old and his mental faculties were still sharp considering his age. Go look him up. He's got videos on here. LSD used in proper setting with proper dosage restrictions is no more harmful than eating a tasty cake.
Kostly 2 weeks ago
@Kostly Even hundreds of times what would be considered a large dose is far below the toxic range :) it is the safest drug mankind has invented.
Rael0505 1 week ago
@TheDEADBLOOM Yeah, thats why I get so many visuals when I drink alcohol! (Sarcasm)
DrKarakuchi 3 weeks ago
@DrKarakuchi actually alcohol effects your liver and your brain and if you drink enough it can couse visually effect also !
TheDEADBLOOM 3 weeks ago
Ive dropped like 13 times, you people posting about never dropped berfore you need to get on that one.
BlueBlee 1 month ago
I would like to try LSD once in my life, but I want someone to watch me and record it. And I would like to try and write poetry or something, draw something...damn...
Hiru45 1 month ago
@Hiru45 Unfortunately, you will find that the recording will be pretty boring. It will look like you in a room, acting like you always do. The LSD experience, is inherently internal. That is, you can't record what is going on inside your mind. So the trick is, just try and notice what is happening to your mind and what you are observing. That will tell you more about yourself than any video recording of the outside of yourself.
DrKarakuchi 4 weeks ago
@DrKarakuchi However, when you externalize your thoughts in the form of speech or actions, it will give you an idea of how your brain was functioning on the material. It is definitely useful.
Kostly 3 weeks ago
Ego death seems really scary but worth every moment when you break through. Mind blowing events..
xPhantomPoopx 1 month ago
Society almost broke through in the 60s and the corpocracy would not allow it. That's why we have trash culture today - reality shows, shitting music, shallow, shallow, shallow.
cracks21229 1 month ago
His depiction of ego death is wonderfully enlightening.
c1jersey 1 month ago
Simply Amazing. Does anyone have a link to the full talk?
drkroman9 1 month ago 3
@drkroman9 How To Go Out Of Your Mind - The LSD Crisis
whosnkn 1 month ago
What he says, is what jesus, buddha, sokrates and other similar people experienced thousands of years before, and he is right! we're just in one Hell of a Jail. Not doing things, because other say, thats stupid. Overthink what you say twice and so on.. Just so much needles Pressure. Acting Natural is just not possible in such a zivilisation. i know, LSD is making you see the reality but it can not be the Solution for this. maybe we all should learn from Zen monks or other people, who ARE real..
leichnahm 1 month ago
@leichnahm I don't think there is an universal solution, you just have to find your own personal way and inspire other people to do the same thing!
Psych0nautilus 1 month ago
@Psych0nautilus The truth is that what you see on lsd are things you wouldnt see usualy or think of usualy until a point where you rethink of you're perception in some way.
QCBEC 1 month ago
note to self: i have to try LSD before i die :-)
acquisces 1 month ago 2
@acquisces Yes, indeed.
Pianofy 1 month ago
The intellect of this man is incredible. I've been an avid fan of Timothy Leary's for a while now but, in ignorance or obliviousness or whatever the hell, missed out on what Alpert has to say but thank goodness i heard it today.
thatjenk 2 months ago 2
This man really has changed my life.... outside
LSD and all he really got in touch with himself and has done the same for so many others. I love you Ram Dass
jonasbrewer 2 months ago
18 people are the 'they.'
WR4157 2 months ago
@WR4157 listen to it again mate
riseup20twelve 2 months ago
@riseup20twelve 'Twas a joke.
WR4157 2 months ago
Great interview, thanks for posting!
skoookum 2 months ago
well thats an utopic and twisted world view
haters gonna hate
electroislove 2 months ago
LSD has been shown to have no long last side effects, if taken correctly.
Go to wikipedia, and type in LSD and examine the 43rd reference. It is an extensive paper detailing effects of LSD on the body.
Vigrade 2 months ago
i feel sorry for 18 ppl..
3rdeye15 2 months ago
Das ist die antwort
FunkyTrembe 2 months ago
I've also experienced the nature of "interbeing" to a heightened degree on LSD. I could "see" into things. A harmless piece of paper contained the sun, trees, clouds, rain, etc...I also wouldn't trade the laughter I experienced while being high for anything.
69torus 2 months ago 23
@69torus Hey, I ponder if Toruses are similar in that kind of laughter... I also laughed hysterically ... preponderance, profundity, internal collaboration and collapse. A laxative of forms. I wouldn't trade anything for the experience I had either. I would, however, say that the Bridge "into" this inner world is something we all participate in without psychedelics. Yet the persistent "Model of the world" as Alpert puts it truly is individual and in many ways unsharable, in inverse proportion.
Oxxyjoe 2 months ago
@69torus But, those creations are wholly produced by the brain. But, the fuel of that fire is provided by consciousness. Those chemicals being expended do not produce the idea. They facilitate the idea. The idea itself is derived from the greater consciousness. If you want to call it the God consciousness, then do so. It is what it is. There is no possible way that our brain creates everything we experience. It's simply matter with an intricate indicator facility. The nervous system.
Kostly 3 weeks ago
@Kostly Oh, well no need to bring God to an acid trip. Nor would I equate my heightened/"accelerated" consciousness while being high on acid as being somehow closer to God's. As you said, "it is what it is"
69torus 3 weeks ago
@69torus I'm irreligious, but, I do believe in God. I believe everything that is comes from that greater consciousness. All human consciousness originates from that, as well. That's, just like, my opinion, man. :)
Kostly 2 weeks ago
@Kostly That's what Jesus was trying to say. The Old Testament is based on the Sumerian stories where a jealous alien wanted people to look outward and be under his control so they didn't know their divine selves. Later Jesus tried to teach people that the kingdom of heaven is within.
SuzLa1 1 week ago
@SuzLa1 If jesus were alive in this day and age, he would rail against christianity and if he had witnessed what was done in his name, he would be outraged.
Kostly 1 week ago
complete sync that this video came to me. despite not having dosed since April of 1981, I was reflecting on that VERY LAST and impactful trip. I had taken LSD hundreds of times before I did this blotter. "it" happened....ego death and the panic that he speaks of in the video became so pronounced. In my "ego mania" I was also convinced that the sheer horror I was experiencing was something that I had also inflicted upon the universe. I came through fine later that evening and all was good!!
69torus 2 months ago
lsd has done far more destruction to minds than it has done any good.
benlorenc 2 months ago
@benlorenc What's wrong with that? If you've never done LSD, then you don't understand the value of losing your mind; the value of being able step outside yourself and experience reality without the filter of identity. I didn't really experience this until my 4th trip, so if you've only done it once and thought it was wonderful and that's it, then you have a long journey ahead of you, and if you never do it, then phrases like "consciousness expansion" are nothing more than catch phrases to you
hixidom 2 months ago
@benlorenc besides what @benlorenc stated below, where does one draw a line between destruction liberation? Maybe one is liberated in a way of thinking which is destructive to conventional thinking. The point of all of this is to find yourself and find your true you, not the you which society wants.
WR4157 2 months ago
@WR4157 no i mean destruction as in getting a call from someone on christmas and having them ask you if you want to hear a song you wrote only to hear them singing happy birthday from an insane asylum. i'm not talking about people becoming social misfits, i'm talking about people who get what i like to call syd barrett syndrome. they do acid, fry their brains and then cannot fulfill their basic civil duties because they are mentally incapable.
benlorenc 2 months ago
@benlorenc Yes, I understand. My point is that destruction and liberation are subjective.
WR4157 2 months ago
@WR4157 being deemed insane and being forced to serve out the remainder of your conciousness within this body of existence in an institution with a broken shell??? lsd can break your shell, your body, yes your brain is part of your body, and thus defeat the purpose of enlightenment because it puts filters on your soul that make you unable to communicate with others and form coherent thoughts that are tangible and can benefit all of mankind.
benlorenc 2 months ago
@benlorenc I understand, but it is still a subjective measure. One human being is determining the mental health of another. Where is the bar, where is the line, where is the proof?
WR4157 2 months ago
@benlorenc LSD and all psychedelics can be both beneficial and destructive, yes, but only because there is potential for misuse. Psychedelics are very new to Western society and when LSD hit the streets people didn't know how to use them, and most still don't today since they've been tabooed. If we'd have studied them for the past 40 years instead of trying to make them disappear perhaps we would have learned to use them properly instead of using them just as some other recreational drug.
kryptonickraze 2 months ago
@benlorenc Well put Ben, I like the way you just put that. I suppose you are correct. But it seems like Robert Alpert's awareness or consciousness actually has moved toward the "Macrocosm," as he talks about the collaboration of mankind to work together and create a sustainable balance (that outreaches the present one, at least, of all the injustices we face.) So to me it gave him perhaps a kind of free love for the world, at a great price.
Oxxyjoe 2 months ago
@Oxxyjoe yeah, i have nothing against man working together to create a stable environment that supports all life working in harmony, and if ram dass used lsd and came to that idea, than that is good. but all i am saying is that lsd, while it may induce enlightening experiences, it can also induces dangerous ones.
benlorenc 1 month ago
@benlorenc I totally agree, and some have raised the idea of putting a government in charge of it's usage, but we already know the government is not meant to handle people or their affairs... people understand the government is in charge of alcohol and tobacco, and people are killing themselves with these drugs all the time. People instead have to realize that to take a drug, to take a psychoactive drug, they are taking their life into their own hands.
Oxxyjoe 1 month ago
@benlorenc LSD or any hallucinogen is not for everyone. You shouldn't use it in a distressed state of mind. Whether it's a persistent state of mind in distress or a more temporary one brought on by recent events or experiences.
Kostly 3 weeks ago
@benlorenc "Some of them are living an illusion,
Bounded by the darkness of their minds." from Lost in a Lost World, Moody Blues.
Oxxyjoe 2 months ago
@Oxxyjoe i own that album
benlorenc 1 month ago
@benlorenc how do you really know that?
gardenofskeetn 2 months ago
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@benlorenc - Ignorant bigotry like yours has caused world wars, genocide, oppression, unlawful incarceration, needless suffering and criminalisation of individuals who have the right to do whatever the hell they want so long as they're not harming or having a negative effect on others.
Your mind is probably too feeble and weak to handle anything even mildly 'out there' - that much we can deduce. But don't project your mental handicap and pyschological weaknesses on other people.
mistertai 1 month ago
artificial establishments and materialistic objects via man made government economy, banks, new cars, your job as a wage slave, and green pieces of paper take control of most peoples lives as we know it, LSD simply opens the door into a more concentrated sense of your actual reality with the absence of what man and the human race has led you to believe:
IMAGINE: superior existence, superior 5 sense's, 6th sense if u will, deepest thoughts of your life...truly exist, truly live..15 hit vet
joey6121 3 months ago
Thumbs up if you are here because of Lost !
houari2009 3 months ago
At 5:20, he sounds eerily *like* Bill Hicks... for just a fraction of a second.
TheSimonScowl 3 months ago
"Trust you nerves system."
Been trying to understand it.
The beauty if this video is that every time I look at it I alway discover something new.
vidarsmythe 3 months ago
Brilliant. Thank you
stoinge 3 months ago
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.” ~ Bill Hicks
petestrat07 3 months ago 46
@petestrat07 I know that quote from this song: watch?v=OL6-hSVtuYs
One morning i listened to this on my headphones while in bed before my brain had fully awakened. It made all the sense in the world, and i saw life abstracted as a part of string theory on a grand scale and partly visualized it. That was a truely awe-inspiring incident.
I have never used narcotics, but if i ever were to try any, LSD is at the top of the list togheter with DMT in ayahuasca, in a controlled enviroment*
gulllars 1 month ago
@petestrat07 I feel smart since i realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to slow vibration without LSD at a young age:) ... dont bring the hate
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@basepadz BUt, those ideas didn't come from you. You have that understanding because others have come to that realization. Creativity is the engine that drives evolution. LEarn to be that creative engine. Failure is inevitable. But, failure is part and parcel to progress.
Kostly 3 weeks ago
@basepadz Did you realise this or did you learn this? More importantly, do you understand the entire quote?
petestrat07 2 weeks ago
long ago before computers and so forth. we have come along baby.....
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psillyguava 4 months ago
Is it just me or does anyone else find the gentleman's voice at the very begining of this video (Richard Blum?) really relaxing and calming?
horrorfan24 4 months ago
always a pleasure
movadoband 4 months ago
In one biography, I read once that Rickard Alpert and Timothy Leary had oral sex together, then concluded it was not right and never did it again.
SeattleLA 4 months ago
that's it, trust your nervous system, it is the feelers to detect everything in the cosmos that is coming at you, every particle and ray. Don't be scared. Be a warrior, Castaneda style, then you will come to know power & you won't be scared anymore, just let go & let G-d ◎ ※ ◎ ※
CilyPudii 4 months ago
@CilyPudii Castaneda was a fraud, same Lobsang Rampa, but who I preferred as much less gung ho and of course was Buddha centric.
As to acid, apart from a lot of pretty shapes and colours, found I could easily see the true face behind those in my company and had a small 'connectedness' experience with a sister. However knew a lot of people who overdid and ended up in loony bins and subsequent deaths at untimely ages.
Meditation much better and never have a 'bad trip'.
carriemaizey 3 months ago
@carriemaizey `` there is a 1000 ways to activate the natural DMT that is in your pineal gland. LSD is just a product from ergot fungus. 'shrooms got it too. But "lucid dreaming" is a good way to naturally stimulate the pineal, and Castaneda did a lot to coach one how to master lucid dreaming. I am grateful to him. The entheogenic plants on the Earth are here for a reason. My DNA has told me so. This video is excellent isn't it. Sad people in the Govt. think they can outlaw plants, no?
CilyPudii 3 months ago
@CilyPudii yes Graham Hancock's book Supernatural is recent and wonderful. also a writer, diplomat Paul Von Ward that I heard speak yesterday and of course Steve's death yesterday and how far Apple products have taken us. but since this old beatnik video, common sense is being lost, drink your water, sleep, draw, write, invent, be an strong independent and mentor the young men and women.....dinner at the kitchen table and a good mountain climbing trip , be well.....the other is just icing.
thepixieful 3 months ago
@CilyPudii Hey I 'activated' my pineal gland. If I concentrate on it for a long time I can feel it start to pulsate faster and faster and then I feel like I can move the pulsating feeling all around inside my head. Once, when doing this, my vision started to get wavy, like everything was slowly bending out of and back into place. Do you know what this means? Also I want to take this to the next level but I don't know what to do next, any advice?Asking you because you sound knowledgeable about it
MrJerktube 3 months ago
@MrJerktube I've heard overstimulation of the pineal gland can bring about hallucinations, I've never experienced it before. Also try sungazing, it's a yogic technique used in India. When the sun is rising or setting and you can look at it without it hurting your eyes just sort of meditate with it in your vision and it's supposed to stimulate your pineal gland.
kryptonickraze 2 months ago
@carriemaizey when younger I was sad Casteneda was a fraud they are good teen books. Graham Hancock's book Supernatural is great, recent. yes meditation and drink your water. some actual ph.d's now looking at mushroom compounds for illnesses, finally.....it is all chemistry and light really, be well.
thepixieful 3 months ago
Anyone have the rest of this video? or Know where i can watch it?
BABYTRU519 4 months ago
could anyone tell me, is what he's talking about towards the end ("...the panic that precedes psychological death...") similar to Kundalini syndrome?
louis424 4 months ago
@louis424 No no no listen to what he says: "Richard Alpert is an identity that I've taken on... then I learned this whole business of who I am... you start to have a dissociative experience of where all that you become is awareness... all of my games were like going off into the distance"
Basically he's saying that as he learned that we were all one being (as opposed to "Richard Alpert") he started to become scared because his identity was lost in that one being (psychological death)
kingcole55 3 months ago
Great video.
CurtisThorpe 4 months ago
wow.......fascinating to see ram dass so young and already so inspired.... :)
StephanieLisaTara 4 months ago
Pandemic generations of professional consumers killing off our humanity.
Spending money we don't have,
On things we don't need,
To make impressions that won't last,
On people we don't care about.
twistedbass15 4 months ago
The speaker at the start of the video looks just like that guy from Revenge of the Nerds.
TheShel10 4 months ago
the 60's launch the spirtual quest for that generation ... at that point in history a drug was needed to provide the insights conveyed in many eastern traditions ... alan watts pointed this out in his famous remark that 'you hang up the phone once you have received the message' ... LSD was a phone call back in the 60's ... times have changed and better more enduring non-phamacological methods have been revived
integralsun 5 months ago
This man gave over 100,000 hits of LSD to a group of Stanford students that launched them on a magical trip. Check out our documentary Anonymous Artists of America @aaafilm
66film4tania 5 months ago
@ChuckNorrisKratosLOL I adore terrance McKenna, had some dmt last night!!!&Terrance I have to give my gratitude always4his awakening of the human conciousness
dimethaltryptamine1 5 months ago
yo, richard alpert, lost
JargonSauce 5 months ago
Anyone ever heard of bahagavan Dass? It's here now, are you?
luma62183 5 months ago
My one and only LSD trip changed my life forever. Somehow I had the wisdom
given to me that my perception and experience that :God is Love was the only
purpose of the trip. I immediately changed my lifestyle and never took LSD again.
It opened me up to the wonder of transcendence and now I needed to make it a
living moment to moment experience without pills. Richard eventually came to
the same conclusion. His book "Be Here Now" lead me to other great writers.
Kalhil Gibran (1923) The Prophet-
doula2010 5 months ago
Is this in the 60's?
StephenFiorentini 6 months ago
I so LOVE Tim Leary,Richard Alpert[Ram Dass]&Ralf Metznier. Long live the triumverates influences
dimethaltryptamine1 6 months ago
That painting behind him looks like a dude's asshole
burgerkingmurders 6 months ago
I believe that irresponsible misuse of certain substances leads to corruption...
Zeanu 6 months ago
Thank you youtube
sor8an 6 months ago
That's a picture of Meher Baba in the background. A Great Spirit who declared *If God can be found in a pill, God is not worthy of being called God*. Richard's being really flowered when he let go the drug taking. That's when he came to Oneness and embraced the awakening that is Ram Dass.
Offdrive3 6 months ago
what documentary is this from?
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fmeriqui 6 months ago
To look at this and you think "this man is brilliant, look how much he knows". And then you realize Richard Alpert was merely standing at the bottom of the ladder of knowledge compared to where Ram Dass is now. Staggering...and beautiful. Namaste
cranie4 6 months ago
Wow!! I really love this one! :))
madpixieful 7 months ago
oh my gooooood what an amazing video right there. I love you Baba.
Shamvorpio 7 months ago
I used to do psychedelics for solely recreational reasons. I had little interest in spirituality. These experiences pointed me toward spirituality, and now I'm feeling depressed for no reason, maybe because of my use of these substances in places I shouldn't have. I've learned they aren't something to fuck around with. Should I avoid the psychedelic experience, or embrace it as an opportunity to heal with my new appreciation for spirituality?
Tengent 7 months ago
@Tengent Baba explains it as "the psychedelics let you into Heaven for a short time but you can't stay because you haven't gotten there in the proper way." Now that you are aware that there is more than what you can see, feel, and touch you should open yourself to Ram Dass teachings to learn the proper way to get there, without the artificial means.
cranie4 6 months ago
Namaste. Our dear Conduit, Sri Baba Ram Dass is still in his body, enjoying Maui, and continues to teach at 80 years in that incarnation. We are blessed. Thank You for posting this video. May we all benefit from His explorations. He very much is an 'advance scout', as it were. Namaste.
HanumanDas420 7 months ago
Nice!
orlo1000 7 months ago
'We are All apart of everything'
AntiMusick 7 months ago
An amazing video. Everything is clear to me except the last statement: "Trust your nervous system." Can anyone elaborate for me? Does this mean to essentially stop thinking and let the experience of losing identity take over?
stevied2008 8 months ago
The problem is that he has his facts wrong.
mikeusat 8 months ago
Some people who cannot find peace within, will always search for a non-organic substitute for our pleasure void.
zowzilla 8 months ago
The hippie communism thing did not work, the very reason we have enough to go around is our selfishness and drive. And as soon as we buy into this WE thing there will not be enough to go around, remember Russia in the 60s.
bj4paul 8 months ago
@bj4paul are you saying there everyone in the world has "enough" at the moment? maybe you need to get off the computer and travel around a bit
el6caballo6oscuro6 7 months ago
I've only dropped acid a few times (the first time being the most intense), but the impression that it made on me will stay with me for the rest of my life...amazing, beautiful, the closest to insane i ever want to get, but never-the-less a voyage into my own mind that can never really be explained in words. Every one should try it at least once, which goes every thing in life. Hey, you only live once and you're a long time dead :)
johnkeig 8 months ago
Keeping the machines going is the primary value. Serving the machine is why we live. Soon we will be bio hooked to unlimited computors our minds will be linked 24/7/365 to computors to keep us productive and competing even during sleep ,and out preforming the world. In the hearts of our overseerers serving the machine at all costs is the goal.
jobedied 8 months ago
this guy speaks the truth!
fuckmycunt99 8 months ago
wow. much of his words are plagiarized verbatim in the Zeitgeist movie, i wonder if this is credited :P
Ganon2234 8 months ago
@Ganon2234 Everythin in Zeitgeist is credited..the first movie which Peter Joseph admits he didn't have clearance for features Richard Alpert speaking. I hope plagairstic or not, you are not somehow suggesting that Zeitgiest movement (which is seperate from the films,especially first one) is just plagairizing other ppl and is therefore not to be listened to? Doesn't matter either way it working on a solution, arguments over who's idea it was first is futile. Watch Krishnamurti speak on immitaion
Shep11111 8 months ago
@Shep11111 hey mate i'm not hating on zeitgeist or it's tenets. i love the movement! peace and spread the good word.
Ganon2234 8 months ago
I Love this video and I just keep watching it, but videos like this one depress me about what could have been. Squandered possibilities.
Sidneyirvinggrosberg 9 months ago 15
@Sidneyirvinggrosberg Change is always possible within you.
majikrush 9 months ago 28
@majikrush Yes, but I do not have the power to change a society that I am becoming increasingly alienated from.
Sidneyirvinggrosberg 8 months ago
@Sidneyirvinggrosberg
mmyea as much as i adore the guy, Tim Leary really made a mess of it. still in the long run majikrush is right.
there's no invention, just eternal discovery.
sybyly 8 months ago
@Sidneyirvinggrosberg There is still time to end Reagan's war on drugs within our lifetime! Fight for your right to explore your own consciousness!
Pr4dat0r 5 months ago
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@Sidneyirvinggrosberg Great ideas. revelationsofapsychotherapist.blogspot.com
PsychotherapistBlog 4 months ago
@Sidneyirvinggrosberg it's never over :D
deryazzi 4 months ago
@deryazzi No it's not. But looking around at the state of things today surely is no encouraging act.
Sidneyirvinggrosberg 4 months ago
He basically described the standard ego death from psilocin/LSD/DMT
Shadowbeamx 9 months ago
I am so glad that I came across this video.
gnulebin 9 months ago
trust your nervous system people
jbartz 9 months ago
Why is it that I have never heard of this genius before? I'd like to sit across the table from him and Terrence McKenna in a deep discussion about LSD passing a joint.
NarLiv 9 months ago
Awesome interview, everyone should be aware of the psychadelic experience IMO (of course we can only hope everyone would share a positive outcome!). This fellow is a very good speaker! ^_^
andy7666 9 months ago
I have never seen something this descriptive of the actual feeling of being on a psychedelic. Its not even the hallucinations that get me, its the change in perception.
the1nicster 9 months ago 11
@the1nicster Totally agree. The change in perception is what we are looking for; LSD is just one of many catalysts.
majikrush 9 months ago 13
this is great, wow an account with only 1 video is impressive to have over 200k views!! thanks for posting!!
madJedi1 9 months ago 7
@madJedi1 Thanks!
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wda013 9 months ago
It's a good feeling to know that I have shared this with over 200,000 people... a powerful little drop in the ocean of our collective consciousness.
majikrush 9 months ago 46
@majikrush such a brilliant man in his words and judging by his expressions during the interview I don't know that I have ever seen a more genuine person speak. Thanks for posting!
ltakliq 9 months ago
@ltakliq You are more than welcome
majikrush 9 months ago
@majikrush isnt the internet fantastic, thanks 4 sharing bro
spasemonkey05 8 months ago
Given his comment on the 'Dome at the worlds fair.', Expo '67 Montreal, Canada
FidelCastro128 10 months ago
Studio D ,NFB & CBC Co-Production, classic vintage news reel
interesting footage.
FidelCastro128 10 months ago
This is LSD down to a tee
fantasypgatour 10 months ago
@Slugg329 I think Ram Dass is speaking beyond what you're looking into. Since he's not exactly talking of a capitalist society in mind, rather an all in one collaborative society. Much like what the Natives had before white man came in.The society functioned much of cohabiting family. Rather than the new aged competitive and destructive nature we have now which is "how we know it".But It DOES NOT have to be that way, it's the way some rich__'s made it and convinced you and I how it should be.
valiantfocker 10 months ago
@valiantfocker I know what you're saying, but it doesnt seem possible. Have u ever read Adam Smith's the Wealth of Nations? Its much more insightful and realistic than the idealist, drug induced belief that there is enough resources to go around for everyone. Its just not true. Things are designed, produced, sold and bought in markets that should fit the competitive model. Co-ops dont work well in reality. Humans are a very tricky species.
Slugg329 10 months ago
@Slugg329 or if everyone took LSD they wouldnt need that external motiviation or greed, they would all be internally motivated to do well and good as one.
CroOokedTeEth 10 months ago
@CroOokedTeEth I've never been motivated to do good when tripping on acid. I like to dance, laugh, have sex and enjoy the world. I wouldnt want to work a job.
Slugg329 10 months ago
@Slugg329 you wouldnt have to work a job, if only people were self sufficient. lsd would hopefully just keep people peaceful and respectful, rather then greedy. ive never tripped lsd so, i am no expert or anything. just an idealist.
CroOokedTeEth 10 months ago
but if everyone did LSD, they wouldnt need that external, greedy motivation. it would all be internal.
CroOokedTeEth 10 months ago
Great video, I'm really impressed by Ram's teachings, and although I don't take LSD or any other drug, I do see him, and Timothy Leary as visionaries of the psychological world. One thing that I noted to be strange about the video aside from the content was the fact that the video seemed to be pix elating at about 60 bpm. I wonder if this was a subliminal message of some sort intended to pass through our absolute thresholds.
gtjoesalutes 10 months ago
He's so right!
islandfever 10 months ago
@Slugg329 Well, actually, i beg the differ sir, that is absolutely the opposite of what moderns social science is saying. For instance Dan Pink here: watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc or Howard Rheingold: watch?v=d5s3Z0iesRM or.. yeah, i have an abundance of sources, but those two are among those pedagogical enough for most people.
CalyptratusTZM 10 months ago
@CalyptratusTZM I watched the first video, and I plan to watch the 2nd soon b/c I did like the RSA video. I dont agree with it though. True, society's best accomplishments aren't achieved because of the monetary incentive. A good example is Jonas sulk and his polio vaccine in which he did not patent. But if you compare economies throughout, lets say, the 20th century, those that have had the most competitive markets have surpassed those more prone to collectivism. Competition breeds high quality
Slugg329 10 months ago
Superb, absolutely superb stuff.
Karl Marx said much the same thing - he was right, Alpert is too.
Thank you so much for uploading this!
TerrySleeper 11 months ago
DAMN! At the end of this video I got really freak out cause I have been feeling that way!!! :O DAMN YOU Awareness!
ALPHADESIGNTAMPICO 11 months ago
He's mixing Anthropology/Psychology and his proLSD and turning in to his own Propaganda.
Good job
SteampunkPagan 11 months ago
Nice :) I love Ram Dass. LSD (not alone) has helped shaped who I am today. Someone who understands that collaboration over competition is the key to our survival. Someone who is non materialistic, concerned for others, empathetic, sympathetic, and on a path to enlightenment. I'm not saying LSD is a necessary step to take, but it sure does help open the 3rd eye, and you can truly see (and feel) how money, possessions, social status, etc. is all an illusion. Thanks for the upload friend :)
benatssu 11 months ago 7
Thank you for posting this! I enjoyed it so much.
drdrewcc06 11 months ago
@Cliner98 As a psychologist who has studied this topic for many years, I can categorically say that you are talking pure nonsense. The part of the brain responsible for breathing, heart rate etc is the Medulla Oblongata. Studies show LSD doesn't affect this but instead effects the Cerebral Cortex which is responsible for thought/consciousness/perception. Research "Neurotransmitter receptor binding" and "LSD" and read the research yourself. LSD is as 'safe' as the mind of the person taking it.
majikrush 11 months ago 2
Absolutely brilliant. His description of the psychedelic experience is the best I have ever heard. You can tell how hard hes trying to make his thoughts words.
5eizur3 11 months ago
@Cliner98 First, of course it's not a "totally safe drug", is there such a thing? No, and I found that most physical effects are truly controllable, & it all depends on one's state of mind, setting, & who else is with you....
StevenCharlesJazz 11 months ago
@Cliner98 , you also might have taken stuff cut with speed or even strychnine, which would definitely create anxiety....
StevenCharlesJazz 11 months ago